Mother tongue interference is the phenomenon where linguistic systems of a mother tongue are transferred to another language. Recently, Nagata and Whittaker (2013) have shown that language family relationship among mother tongues is preserved in English written by IndoEuropean language speakers because of mother tongue interference. At the same time, their findings further introduce the followi...

Foreign language learners tend to mispronounce sounds in the target language by subconsciously searching and substituting with “similar corresponding sounds” in their native dialects. Correction of EFL pronunciation is thus difficult for both instructors and learners. Yet Critical Period Hypothesis is being increasingly misused by Chinese teachers and researchers as an excuse for not paying att...

The paper presents and analyzes common mistakes made due to the influence of Georgian English language in learning German as a foreign language. research aims review Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University’s students' written texts, identify errors, classify, conduct contrast analysis. target group consists twenty-four students second year philology. As result analysis errors interlingual intra...

This study aims to investigate the errors that students made in writing test a private university Jordan and mainly focuses on inter-lingual errors. research has adopted qualitative methodology analytical approach which involves assessment of facts, evaluation information critical thinking examine data from targeted respondents get outcomes.Descriptive inferential analysis tool were used provid...

Tree Substitution Grammar rules form a large and expressive class of features capable of representing syntactic and lexical patterns that provide evidence of an author’s native language. However, this class of features can be applied to any general constituent based model of grammar and previous work has done little to explore these options, relying primarily on the common Penn Treebank annotat...